GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 19 November 1908, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November 22, Sunday.— Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost." St. Cecilia, Virgin and- Martyr. „ 23, Monday.— St. Clement, Pope and Martyr. -„ 24, Tuesday.— St. John of the Cross, Confessor. „ 25, Wednesday.— St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. „ 26, Thursday.— St. Sylvester, Abbot. „ 27, Friday.— St. Virgil, Bishop and Confessor. „ 28, Saturday.— St. Gregory 111., Pope and Confessor. St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr. St. Cecilia was a member of a noble Roman family. Betrothed by her parents, against her own wishes, to Valerian, a pagan, she succeeded, in converting .him and his brother to the Christian religion. On this coming to the ears of the PrefecT of the city, the two brothers were beheaded. The same sentence was passed on St. Cecilia, but, owing to the clumsy manner in which the executioner performed his task, the holy virgin lingered for three days in great agony, A.D. 230. St. Clement, Pope and Martyr. St. Clement filled the chair of Peter on the death of St. - Cletus, A.D. 91. He was a Jew by birth, and a companion of St. Paul, by whom he is mentioned, in the Epistle to the Philippians, as one of those ' whose names are written in the Book of Life.' After a pontificate of nine years, St. Clement suffered martyrdom under Trajan, A.D. 100.